Vintage Japanese negatives

This may be my last batch for a while as the price of these vintage Japanese negatives has gone through the roof!
Luckily I purchased a few before this happened, but now it’s become ridiculous and i’m not paying silly money.
A recent pack of 30 negs (which did include some war related ones) went for nearly $1000!!!

Vintage Japanese negatives (batch 3) Here is batch 3 of my Vintage Japanese Negatives series together with the original paper folder they were placed in after processing around 80 years ago. Notice the lovely picture of a Contax on the front. Bit of a mixed bag this batch. There a few what I would call … Read More

Vintage Japanese negatives (batch 2, part 1) Carrying on with my vintage Japanese negatives series here is the 1st part of batch 2. This batch contains a lot of negatives so will be posted in 2 parts. Sadly there are quite a few stuck in their glassine sleeves and some that have been damaged. Nevertheless … Read More

I recently acquired over 100 vintage Japanese negatives dating from the early 1930’s. It’s quite a job sorting through them as some are still stuck in their glassine sleeves, where they have no doubt been for the past 80 years or so!

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